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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread #225238 - 07/27/16 07:09 AM Colorful Words   Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 2 AkivaLane stranger AkivaLane   stranger Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 2 New York About 20 years ago, I started collecting ‘colorful’ words. I realized that some words sound a bit funnier and have a somewhat greater emotional impact than others. Some examples: aghast, amok, begrudge, besmirch, bliss, bogus, chafe, coy, crave, cringe, dawdle, dote, dwindle, eke, feisty, ferret, fester, festoon, fickle, finagle, finicky, flabbergasted, flutter, foible, frazzled, frenzy, frolic, frumpy, garble, gawk, gibberish, glimmer, glitch, gloat, gruff, guffaw, hubbub, ilk, irk, lush, mayhem, mollify, mull, nab, ogle, paltry, pander, penchant, plight, plummet, posh, pummel, quibble, raucous, ravage, rebuff, rubble, scoff, scour, scrimp, scrounge, sham, shenanigans, sizzle, splurge, spree, squalid, squeamish, squelch, squirm, sully, surly, swath, throng, thug, thwart, trounce, trudge, woo, zeal. Whenever I read or heard a colorful word, I added it to my list. By 2001 I had about 200 such words. But the list was burned up on 9/11 because I worked in 7 World Trade Center, a building that came down in the afternoon. So I continued to compile the list. As of now, I have almost 1190 words, all gems #225239 - 07/27/16 04:18 PM Re: Colorful Words [Re: AkivaLane]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,120 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,120 Land of the Flat Water I, too, collect words. Not as many as you, however. Getting to use them is the trick. WELCOME ----please, draw me a sheep---- #225252 - 07/29/16 09:02 AM Re: Colorful Words [Re: AkivaLane]   Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 2 AkivaLane stranger AkivaLane   stranger Joined: Jul 2016 Posts: 2 New York I don't know the etiquette of this forum - is it possible trade emails? #225254 - 07/29/16 10:51 AM Re: Colorful Words [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,883 wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,883 Worcester, MA I'll offer you two more for your list of colorful words, on behalf of former Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz. They were his two favorite words, he said. eleëmosynary - linguistic precursor of "alms" and phantasmagorical - a double-dactyl, if you're into such things... #225255 - 07/29/16 10:52 AM Re: Colorful Words [Re: AkivaLane]   Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,883 wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 7,883 Worcester, MA (P.S. Click on the flashing envelope.) #225256 - 07/29/16 03:56 PM Re: Colorful Words [Re: wofahulicodoc]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,120 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,120 Land of the Flat Water Akiva: as wofa said above - click on the flashing envelope at the top. ----please, draw me a sheep---- #227966 - 02/09/18 04:18 AM Re: Colorful Words [Re: AkivaLane]   Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,040 A C Bowden old hand A C Bowden   old hand Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,040 London, UK Some more good words: altazimuth angelology buckminsterfullerene cancrizans clanjamfrie mesembryanthemum noumenon oological paraprosdokian tintinnabulation tmesis umquhile xenoglossy zugzwang Ftatateeta Schiermonnikoog Witwatersrand #227967 - 02/09/18 05:04 PM Re: Colorful Words [Re: A C Bowden]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,120 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,120 Land of the Flat Water there is a university in Witwatersrand ----please, draw me a sheep---- #227976 - 02/13/18 01:03 AM Re: Colorful Words [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,040 A C Bowden old hand A C Bowden   old hand Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,040 London, UK Witwatersrand means "ridge of white waters" in Afrikaans, in reference to the waterfalls there. 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